Lost almost everything

Just got home from NC. Was only gone friday afternoon, saturday, and sunday. Came home to find that the exhaust vent to my portable ac unit had fallen out of the window and my building was at 130 degrees. I had put in thermostat fail safes for the heaters but never thought about the ac. I am so messed up right now I don't know what to do...

from right now it looks like I lost
fire yb
spinner
bumble bee
yb
spider
Het albino and any eggs she is carrying
albino
my 2 normals
lesser
butter
mojave
fire
2 leopard geckos
all my rats
and looks like most of the rest may have neuro damage

I feel like I could die right now.
:tears::tears::tears::tears::tears::tears::tears::tears::tears::tears:

oh and my incubator was at 96 and I am not sure how long it has been that high, so those eggs may be dead too. fml

Oh my gosh. I am so sorry this happened to you.
My deepest condolences. I hope your surviving animals are ok.

Omg im so Sorry. Thats horrible. Best luck to you

I'm so sorry! I, too, hope your surviving animals make it alright.

I'm so sorry! What a horrible thing to come home to :(

Hopefully the rest of your animals are okay!

:( im am so sorry to hear for your loss.

Feel for you man.... We lost a large portion of our collection this past Jan. It sucks and nothing anyone says makes it better. Ours was completely our fault as well, at least was a complete accident.
Try not to beat yourself up too much.

That's really rough Wes. Sorry to read this, how are the retics?

Im sorry for your loss. :( I hope the others pull through.

So Sorry for your loss. Hope the rest of your pets make it thru and return to good health. :please:

:( (hugs)

I have nightmares about going on vacations or trips because of stories like this. So sorry this happened, I hope the survivors bounce back quickly.

Sorry to hear of your loss. Hopefully the others will be ok.

I'm sorry to hear about this. :(

That's just awful. :( I hope the survivors do well and some of the eggs survive.

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OMG how awful! :(

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That's really rough Wes. Sorry to read this, how are the retics?

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Luckily I decided to wait till after I got back to move the retics so they were still in the house in QT, so they are all fine.

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That is so awful :(

So the heat generated by the AC was getting blown inside, which resulted in heating the apartment rather than cooling it even though the AC itself was running?

EDIT: It's in a building that naturally got to 130 without the AC running?

How absolutely horrible :( I am so sorry that that happened

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Originally Posted by MrLang

That is so awful :(

So the heat generated by the AC was getting blown inside, which resulted in heating the apartment rather than cooling it even though the AC itself was running?

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Yes, the Exhaust hose which was connected to the plastic bracket that was in the window fell and landed pointing at my adult racks so I lost all the snakes that were in those 3 racks, except for the Mystic girl that was in the very top of the tallest rack in the back. I really don't think it happened to long before I got home because they didn't look like they had been that way for long.

I keep trying to dig the holes but it is so hot and my mind is wondering so much... I know it could have been a lot worse, but this sucks so bad.

Sorry man, that really sucks.

Sorry for your loss Wes, I can't imagine :(

Wow, that really sucks. Sorry for your losses!!

I'm so sorry :( :( That is awful!!

You have my sympathy. I don't know how I would even begin to cope with something like this.

God, that is horrible. I can't even imagine what you're going through.

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I am so, so sorry, man. *hugs* I do know what it's like to lose a large number of valuable, beloved animals, and it was all my fault, too, not just a freak accident. Try not to beat yourself up about this. I know that's easier said than done.

We're all here for you.

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I'm so sorry for your loss :(

I can't imagine - So sorry.

I'm so sorry to hear that Wes. There really aren't words that can fix it but my thoughts are with you. Keep your head high, don't linger and beat yourself up, and don't give up.

Regards,

B

I do not wish to add 'what ifs' to this thread, but you mentioned you hadn't considered adding a failsafe to the AC.

So you're saying you could put a failsafe on the AC where if it gets TOO hot the AC turns off like you would use a Tstat on a heater? So you set the Tstat to like 90 and if it ever hits that temp you assume that having the AC running is not helping but hurting?

Oh wow, this is really horrible, I feel so bad for you right now. To lose so much in so little time I can't even imagine what you're going through.

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I do not wish to add 'what ifs' to this thread, but you mentioned you hadn't considered adding a failsafe to the AC.

So you're saying you could put a failsafe on the AC where if it gets TOO hot the AC turns off like you would use a Tstat on a heater? So you set the Tstat to like 90 and if it ever hits that temp you assume that having the AC running is not helping but hurting?

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Yes, it was relatively cool this weekend here(only about 85-86) so the building would have probably only gotten to about 95 or so if the ac unit would have shut off.

It also looks like I am going to loose the mystic girl and a couple of the babies... They are corkscrewing :(

......Don't think anything I can say will help; I don't even know what I would do in this situation......

Everything I think of sounds like crap; there aren't words to express how sorry I (and we as a community) are for you

Wes, i'm so sorry to hear this.

If there's anything at all i could do to help, please don't hesitate to PM me. This really blows. :(

Wow what a nightmare, so sorry

The Mystic girl just died...:tears:

Wes that sucks big time.
I am guessing that your ac unit does not fit the widow right so you were trying to duct the exhaust heat out the window and it failed to stay in and actually caused it to heat the room up more (by blowing the exhaust air back in) .

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Originally Posted by mechnut450

Wes that sucks big time.
I am guessing that your ac unit does not fit the widow right so you were trying to duct the exhaust heat out the window and it failed to stay in and actually caused it to heat the room up more (by blowing the exhaust air back in) .

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It was a portable ac unit that has an exhaust hose that connects to a bracket you put in the window. The bracket had no way to be secured to the window and the window on my building is small and doesn't hold much weight on the bracket. So I put 3M double sided tape on the top and bottom of the bracket before I put it down in the groves of the window, then taped the outside of it with aluminum tape. I guess that wasn't enough because it came back out... I am taking two pieces of flat bar that are a little bit longer than the outside of the window and I am going to secure the bracket from the outside so it cannot come out again. Something I should have thought of to start with, and am now kicking the hell out of my self for it.

Man,i am so sorry about your loss. I know nothing we can do is going to make you feel any better. But i am puttin it out there that the remaining babies all pull through.

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I'm am so so sorry. :( I can't believe this happened. I hope everything works out and things start to look up sooner than you think. :/

I am very sorry to hear for your loss. This very same thing happened to me 20 years ago. My heart was broken. I was gifted a hatchling snake and it was very healing. I would like to offer you to same. I have some ball pythons hatching now and over the next couple of months. Mostly Fire combos. Please let me know when/if you would consider this gift. Chris

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I am very sorry to hear for your loss. This very same thing happened to me 20 years ago. My heart was broken. I was gifted a hatchling snake and it was very healing. I would like to offer you to same. I have some ball pythons hatching now and over the next couple of months. Mostly Fire combos. Please let me know when/if you would consider this gift. Chris

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Stand up guy right here folks ^

Its nice to see such kindness. Its getting pretty rare these days. My hats off to you SansCera.

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So sorry for your loss Wes. My thoughts are with you.

Wow, that is horrible...

I want to take a minute to thank everyone for their support and not giving me hell about the mistake I made. This has been a learning experience that I wouldn't want my worst enemy to go through... I will now be quadruple checking anything that even has a .000001% chance of going wrong. I refuse to let something like this happen again. It is one thing when a freak accident happens but when something like this happens that could have easily been prevented then there is no excuse. I just appreciate you guys not beating me up like I am already doing to myself. Thank you all!

I want to give a special thanks to SansCera for offering a hatchling to help rebuild my collection. It is great knowing there are people out there like you. Thank you so much! :)

I also want to publicly say I am sorry to all the animals that lost their lives in the accident. I love you all and miss you soo much. :tears: :(

To be honest I don't think this was a problem anyone could be expected to have seen happening.

Anyone who thinks you are to blame for this through inattention or negligence probably also probably thinks you should have seen it coming in the phases of the moon and stars. :rolleyes:

I know how it feels to tragically lose animals. I feel for you man.

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Sorry this happened to your snakes and you.